Esra'a al-Shafei

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One of the most exciting aspects of working on Internet
technologies is how quickly the tools you build can spread to millions of users
worldwide. It's a heady experience, one that has occurred time and again here
in Silicon Valley. But there's also responsibility that attaches to that
excitement. For every hundred thousand cases in which a tool improves someone's
day, there is another case in which it's used in a life-or-death situation. And
for online journalists working on high-risk material, or in high-risk places, that
life may be their own or that of a source. That's why CPJ, together with Alexey
Tikhonov from Kazakhstan's Respublika,
Esra'a
al-Shafei from the pan-Arab forum MidEast Youth,
and activist Rami Nakhle from Syria, spent this week
visiting and meeting with technologists, entrepreneurs, and thinkers in Silicon
Valley.